Karl Malden Quotes
I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.
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If you had the height, you controlled the battle.
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
